Ransomware Report: LockBit by far the most active
As in the previous months, LockBit remained by far the most active ransomware in August. Only then does triple extortion follow: the attack with DDoS in addition to encryption and blackmail. At least that is what the current August ransomware report by Malwarebytes shows. Malwarebytes' threat intelligence team attributed 2022 attacks to the ransomware group in August 62 (compared to 61 attacks in July 2022 and 44 attacks in June 2022). For REvil, however, Malwarebytes only noted one attack in August. RansomEXX reports its first victim in four months and Snatch reports after 40 days...